The 2016 version of Bands and BBQ includes more than food and music when it takes over Point Park Sept. 16 and 17. “We wanted to grow the event and decided to add the Ride IN Bike Show and the Rolling Thunder Air Show, then end Saturday evening with fireworks,” Carroll County Tourism Director Misty Wheeler said.

The competing BBQ teams are encouraged to set up early, and Wheeler said visitors to Point Park might see teams setting up as early as Tuesday.

Carrollton City Council approved Sept. 1, a recommendation to revise the C-2 district ordinance to include car lots as a conditional use. The recommendation will go before the Planning and Zoning Commission its next meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday Sept. 14.

The state is mowing roadways in Carroll County again, and Fiscal Court has a list of areas it wants addressed before the workers leave.

Magistrate Floyd Bowling told Judge-Executive Bobby Lee Westrict at the Aug. 22, meeting to make sure that Lock Road is mowed, as the residents are not happy. Bowling said it has been two years since the road had been mowed.

Westrick added that he has been receiving complaints about the medians at the interstate being overgrown and blocking line of sight.

Arts n’ Barks in the Park is a new event coming up Saturday, Sept. 3, at General Butler State Resort Park. While the name is new, Arts n’ Barks is actually two festivals that have been held at the park previously combined into one: The Goldenrod Gala, a juried arts and craft fair, and Woofstock, a day for dogs and people.